Newsletters, property alerts and general marketing emails can be a chore in the hectic day-to-day life of the real estate agent. But they needn't be.
iProperty's Newsletter system allows you to set up a range of templates you need for ongoing use. Then from you, it's simply a matter of a few lines of text, selecting the properties you want to include from iDashboard, selecting the recipients from your iDashboard database and it's done. You can even set up automated campaigns with properties that match the criteria of a given contact list - without even touching the keyboard!
- After logging into iDashboard, hover your mouse over the Campaigns menu at the top of your screen, then click on Newsletter Campaigns.
- On the Newsletter Campaigns home page, you can see all of your existing series or create a new one.
- To create a new newsletter series, click on the New Newsletter Series button and select your chosen design.
- Enter a Name, Description, From Address, and confirm the Design you selected in step 3. If your office has the MailChimp integration activated you will also have the option to state that this newsletter is a MailChimp subscription. Click Create Series once completed.
- Once you click Create Series click on the Series Settings link of your new newsletter series to be taken to the Setup Tab of your Newsletter. We now need to nominate the subscribers to this Newsletter. Click on the Subscription Tab to edit the subscribers.
- You can pick whether the subscribers to this Newsletter are from a subscription list, or you can add contacts from a contact group. For this article, let's add contacts from the Buyer group. Then click Save Newsletter.
- If you want, you can also set up the Newsletter to Automatically Subscribe contacts based on their contact category. To do this, simply click on the Automatic Subscribe tab, click the category/categories you wish to automatically subscribe contacts based on, and click Save Newsletter.
- After pressing Save Newsletter, click your browser's back button to go back to the Newsletter Campaigns home page, or hover over the Campaigns menu and click Newsletter Campaigns.
- Find your new Newsletter in the list, and click on the Edit button in the Next Edition column.
- You will be directed to the email editor, displaying the look and feel of the final Newsletter. Here you can change the email subject (it defaults to the Series name). Within the email body, you can change the heading and text content you want to send. You can format this content as you would in Microsoft Word – simply select the text and format it with bullet points, bold text, italicised text and even insert images using the toolbar.
- If you would like to Insert Properties into your newsletter, please refer to this article.
- If you would like to Insert Images into your newsletter, please refer to this article.
- If you would like to Insert Links or Documents into your newsletter, please refer to this article.
- When you have finished composing your newsletter, have the option to Save as Draft, Send Preview, Change Design or Save and Send.
- After saving your Newsletter, you can edit the contents and subscribers at any time through the List of Newsletters and Magazines.
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